Adelaide University – PYLC Programs

Presented by the Adelaide University’s School of Education team in partnership with Iwiri Aboriginal Corporation.

The 2026 Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Language and Culture Winter School will be held in Alice Springs 8 – 10 July 2026.

The PYLC Winter School will benefit people who have contact with Anangu communities and languages in the course of their work. People completing the Winter School should be able to enter into elementary conversations with Anangu. There will also be historical and cultural information within the curriculum.

Consisting of oral practice, elementary vocabulary, basic grammar and written exercises, the School will be conducted with sessions of role play with an emphasis on oral fluency, small group sessions for revision and practice or oral language and grammar sessions. It will provide structures on which students can build to enable further progress in the language.

Course Coordinator Associate Professor Sam Osborne will collaborate with Anangu language and cultural experts to deliver the course. The tutors will work with small groups of participants throughout the course and will provide first-hand knowledge of the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara language and culture from an Anangu perspective.

By the end of the course the students will:

> be familiar with a basic vocabulary

> be familiar with the sounds of the language and be able to reproduce them

> have an introduction to basic Pitjantjatjara Yankuntjatjarra grammar

> be introduced to language in context.

This course is not available for credit but a certificate of completion will be presented.